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86 ; REPORT OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY, 
LIST OF DONATIONS 'TO 'THE MUSEUM DURING 1864. 
—Box of fossils, Mount Pleasant, Iowa. 
Abert, Thayer.—Your cases of minerals, (deposited.) 
Adams, W. H.—Indian arrow-head from Illinois. 
Akhurst, J—Coliection of birds of New Granada and cae Skins of birds 
of Ecuador. 
Aldrich, T.—Shells and insects from New York. 
Andrews, Prof. 1. B.—Meteorite from Ohio ; alcoholic specimens, &c. 
Austin, E. P.—IWnsects from Michigan. 
Babcock, A. L.—Skins of birds ion Massachusetts. 
Beebe, E. H.—Minerals from Galena, Illinois. 
Beers, Dr. H. A—Collection of birds from Kansas and New Mexico. 
Berendt, Dr. H.—Spcecimens of Physclla Berendtii from Mexico. Reptiles, 
imsects, medicinal plants, &c., from Tabasco, Mexico. 
Berthoud, Lieutenant E. T—TYooth of mastodon from Kansas. 
Bertineau, Charles —Ammonites and teeth of sharks and saurians from 
Pembina river. 
Bishop, N. H—Box of birds from Remedios. 
Blake, J. S—¥our boxes of gold and “silver ores from Agua Blanca, Mexico. 
Bland, Wena —Box of W eat Indian shells. 
Boardman, G. A —Skins of birds; nest of raven from New Brunswick. 
Brawner, I. C-—Specimen of monstrosity. 
Breslau, K. Ober Berg-Amt.—Five boxes of minerals and metallurgical 
specimens from the royal | mining establishment in Silesia. 
Buchner, Dr. O.—Six boxes of models of German fungi. 
Buchalew, Hon. C. R.—Skins of birds from Eeuador. 
Campjield, H—Surgical knife used in the revolutionary war. 
Carmiol, Juan wo boxes of birds and mammals from Central Costa 
Rica. 
Carpenter, W. T.—Collection of Australian polyzoa. 
Cartter, Hon. D. K.—Series of birds from La Paz, Bolivia. 
Christiania, Ethnological Museum of —Ulusirations of Lapland ethnology. 
Collins, Colonel W. O.—Skins of Leucosticte t ephrocotis and Lepus Town- 
sendii, Kort Laramie. 
Connolly, Henry.—Box of birds from Labrador. 
Cooper, Dr. J. G.—Skull of Vulpes littoralis, San Nicolsar island, California. 
Cope, Prof. E. D—Box of fossil ganoid fishes from England. 
Cosgrove, Lawrence.—lron pyrites from Fort Scott, Dis frie of Columbia. 
OCoues, Dr. Elliot —Two boxes of birds from Kansas and New Mexico. 
Craven, Dr—Box of mollusea from Hilton Head. 
Dail, W—Insects and shells of Massachuseits. 
Davis, H.—Box of fresh-water shells of Iowa. 
Day, H. H.—Silver ores from the Savage mine, Virginia city. 
Dobson, W.—Arrow-heads, Crown Point, New York, 
Dold, Andres.—TVooth of elephant, Las Vegas, New Mexico. 
Dow, Captain J. M—Box ot birds from Central America. Skin of Jaguar, 
Central America. 
Fitzgerald, Lieutenant C. L.—Birds and shells of the Bahama islands. 
Flini, Dr. Earl.—Orthopterous insect from Nicaragua. 
Foot, Hon. S—Octopus from Fort Pickens; collected by Captain H. A. 
Smalley. Ores of iron from Vermont. 
Foster, Colonel J. We—Cloth from an ancient mound in Ohio. 
Frantzius, Dr. A. von.—Series of birds of Central Costa Rica. 
Galody, Hon. M.—Insects and crabs from Dominica. 
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